10 Years ago today, Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida

[aphex]

Its all over the news down here...

LINK to article.

I still remember waitin out that storm. Sitting up all night hearing the 150+ mph winds whipping past my house for 7 hours. God that night sucked.

 

[ElFenix]

never really went through a hurricane in h-town while i lived there. was on vacation in ohio when alicia hit. thats about it.

 

[Moonbeam]

Yup, upgraded to category 5. Only 3 of those hit US

 

[Liviathan]

I live down south where it really blew houses apart....i can still remember walking out and seeing my neighbors car CRUSHED by roof tiles....

 

[yakko]

I remember watching that on the news. Worst we ever had here that I went through was when Elaina came close in the 80s.

 

[HombrePequeno]

It was kind of weird during the eye of the storm. Dead silence...except for the sloshing of the alligators and snakes in the street, of course.

 

[XCon]

I was there, living in Kendall (Devonaire)
Had lots of friends in Homestead, went down there the day after, what a mess, looked like WW3. My friend that was staying with me during the whole thing, his house was GONE, we pull up to his house, roof was blown away, a telephone pole on his Honda CRX and two little mexicans stealing his stereo and steering wheel....haha, that was fun chasing them down....POW....BLAM....blood, ouch....now get out of here!
What's wierd is, I had no power or water for 2-3 weeks, but I had phone service the entire time.
Like in the middle of Andrew, my phone was ringing, my mom calling to see if I was ok, I was too scared to get out of the bathroon to answer it.
Hurricanes are NO JOKE!

 

[Chaotic42]

Every time I hear of how bad Andrew was, I think of Cameile

 

[PsychoAndy]

Interesting fact: if it hit miami instead of homestead, state farm would have gone bankrupt because they had no reinsurance.

-PAB

 

[fluxquantum]

i remember that. it looked like a bomb had hit there.

 

[Ryan]

Originally posted by: fluxquantum
i remember that. it looked like a bomb had hit there.

what prompted you to revive this thread?

 

[Danman]

I lived in Fort Lauderdale when it happened......we got hit pretty badly then...

 

[Oscar1613]

http://www.geocities.com/deadlockdomain/hurricanes/Andrew10.jpg:Q


in other news... we just got off school for thurs and fri thanks to Lili

 

[BruinEd03]

I think i remember hearing that if the Hurricane had ripped through a major city like Miami or something...that State Farm would've had to file for bankruptcy.

-Ed

 

[Electric Amish]

HA HA!!

You people living on the coast...

amish

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish
HA HA!!

You people living on the coast...

amish

You live in UTAH. You are automatically disqualified from making fun of anyone else for where they live.